Sports Injuries — Physiotherapy in London
We assess and rehabilitate acute and overuse sports injuries with graded loading and objective return-to-sport criteria, so you return to your sport properly rather than just out of pain.
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What you're seeing
The concern
Why it happens
What drives it
- Acute mechanical overload — a single high-force event such as a sprint, jump landing, change of direction, awkward fall, or contact
- Cumulative overuse — training volume or intensity rising faster than the tissue can adapt, driving tendinopathy and bone-stress injuries
- Returning to sport too soon after a previous injury, leaving residual weakness or altered movement
- Strength, mobility, or control deficits up the kinetic chain (commonly hip, gluteal, calf, or trunk)
- Sudden change in footwear, playing surface, or training pattern without an adaptation period
- Inadequate warm-up, recovery, or sleep, which lower the tissue's tolerance to load
Treatment approach
How Sam treats it
Physiotherapy & Sports Rehabilitation
Price on enquiryAccurate diagnosis, hands-on treatment and a graded loading plan are the core of recovery for almost every sports injury, with progress tracked against objective return-to-sport criteria rather than how it feels.
See treatment detail →Strength Training
Price on enquiryStructured, progressive strength work rebuilds the capacity and control the tissue lost — the stage that most reliably restores robustness and reduces the risk of re-injury once pain has settled.
See treatment detail →VALD Performance & Strength Testing
Price on enquiryVALD strength and performance testing gives objective limb-to-limb and sport-specific data, so return-to-sport decisions rest on measured readiness rather than guesswork.
See treatment detail →FAQ
Common
questions
Should I rest a sports injury or keep training?
Complete rest is rarely the right answer. Modified training — reducing intensity, swapping high-impact for low-impact work and loading around the injured tissue — usually supports recovery better and preserves fitness. Your physiotherapist will tell you what to keep doing, what to modify and what to pause while the tissue settles and rebuilds.
How do you decide when I am ready to return to sport?
We test against objective return-to-sport criteria rather than discharging on how it feels. That means restored strength and limb-to-limb symmetry, good movement control, and the ability to handle sport-specific demands — sprinting, cutting, jumping or single-leg load — without symptoms. Skipping these stages is a recognised driver of re-injury.
How long until I can return to my sport?
It depends on the injury. Mild strains and overuse problems often allow modified training within a week and fuller return over several weeks; tendon and bone-stress injuries typically need longer phases of progressive loading. We set a provisional timeline at your first session and update it at each reassessment, based on objective markers.
Do I need a scan before starting physiotherapy?
For most sports injuries, no. Clinical assessment usually guides management of soft-tissue injuries well, and routine scans often show incidental findings that complicate decisions without changing treatment. Imaging is appropriate after significant trauma, when red-flag signs are present, or when symptoms do not follow the expected recovery course.
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Physio and Performance • 111 Charing Cross Road, Soho, London WC2H 0DT
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